Scandinavian design : alternative histories /
edited by Kjetil Fallan.
- English edition.
- xiv, 306 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A Historiography of Scandinavian design / Networks -- Whats worth copyingis worth protecting: applied art and the evolution of Danish Copyright Law / Handwoven fabrics by the yard: unveiling the modern design industry of the Interwar Period / Designing the Consumer in Infinity: the Swedish Cooperative Unions new consumer policy, c.1970 / Designing a hole in the wall: the reverse vending machine as socio-technical system and environmental infrastructure / Appropriations -- Just decoration? Ideology and design in early-twentieth-century Sweden / Goldfish memories: Recounting Oslos streamlined aluminium trams / Creature comforts: soft sofas and the demise of modernist morality in 1970s Finland / Jacob Jensen and the Lifa Kitchen: branding the lLifestyle kitchen with designer personality and mythology / Mediations Something old, something new, something stolen, something blue: designing a chocolate bar / Exhibitable furniture: interpreting images of design / The Advantages of being Swedish: Volvo in America / From policies to politics: Finnish design on the ideological battlefield in the 1960s and 1970s / Christina Zetterlund -- Stina Teilmann-Lock -- Leena Svinhufvud -- Helena Mattsson -- Christina Zetterlund -- Kjetil Fallan -- Minna Sarantola-Weiss -- Hans-Christian Jensen - Per Østby -- Malene Breunig -- Jeff Werner -- Pekka Korvenmaa. 1. Pt. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Finn Arne Jørgensen -- Pt. 2. 6. 7. 8. 9. Pt. 3. 10. 11. 12. 13.
Examines the last century of Scandinavian design to reveal how the region's design culture is very different from popular assumption. A radical reappraisal of one of the most productive and influential design regions in the world. Examines Scandinavian design through a range of diverse examples, from sofas and trams to reverse vending machines and chocolate bars.